OPINION

The City of Thousand Oaks brings this action under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq., and the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968, 42 U.S.C. § 4201 et seq., to prevent the defendants from constructing a post office in the City of Thousand Oaks at a site selected by the defendants.

FACTS

In 1968, the United States Postal Service determined that a new post office should be established in the City of Thousand Oaks and, accordingly, purchased approximately six acres at a cost of $400,000, located in the City of Thousand Oaks at the corner of Duesenberg Drive and Thousand Oaks Boulevard. In August 1972, at the request of the Postal Service, the United States Army Engineer for the District of Sacramento prepared an environmental assessment (a copy of which is in the record before us). After an in depth review of the environmental considerations, it was recommended that no environmental impact statement as contemplated by the National Environmental Policy Act should be prepared and, accordingly, none was.

The construction commenced July 20, 1974, and on August 5, 1974, plaintiff filed this action for declaratory and injunctive relief. A temporary restraining order was issued by this court, and the matter is now here on an application for preliminary injunction and a permanent injunction, it having been stipulated that the court might consider both upon the present showing.

The plaintiff contends that the construction of the proposed Post Office facility is a “major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment . . . ” and should be stopped until an environmental impact statement and other procedures required by the Act have been accomplished.

This action is directed primarily at the Postal Service for it is the agency responsible for the construction of the facility. The Postal Service determined the need, selected and acquired the site and, although calling upon other agencies for assistance, has been generally responsible for the design and construction of the building. This is clearly an exercise of the powers given to the Postal Service by Congress.

Section 410(a) of Title 39 U.S.C. provides :

Neither the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, Chapter’ 52, nor the National Environmental Policy Act, Chapter 55, upon which plaintiff relies as the basis of this action are listed in subsection (b) and consequently are simply not applicable to the Postal Service.

The Postal Service regulations are in accord with this view. Title 30 C.F.R. § 775.1 provides that the National Environmental Protection Act is inapplicable to the exercise of the powers of the Postal Service. Furthermore, this view is supported by the legislative history of the Postal Reorganization Act, P.L. 91-375, of which 39 U.S.C. § 410 is a part (See 1970 U.S.Code Cong, and Admin. News, page 3649). From this it appears that Congress considered the Postal Service as a unique governmental agency desperately in need of improvement and intended that it should be operated under the new law free of many of the usual obstacles facing most agencies. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 appears to have been an obstacle to be removed from the path of the Postal Service. See Johnson v. Postmaster General, 330 F.Supp. 1058 (D.Maryland 1971). Although not necessary to its decision, the court wrote that it entertained serious doubts that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was applicable to the Postal Service.

Plaintiff has cited Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission v. U. S. Postal Service, 159 U.S.App.D.C. 158 , 487 F.2d 1029 (1973). There, the court studied the Postal Service’s construction of a large postal center and decided that the Service had not fully complied with the National Environmental Policy Act. By implication, this seems to indicate that the National Environmental Policy Act does apply to Postal Service. But neither the district court nor the court of appeals discussed section 410, which because of its relative obscurity may well have been overlooked. I hold, therefore, that neither the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act nor the National Environmental Policy Act apply to the Postal Service.

For the foregoing reasons, the plaintiffs’ applications for a preliminary and a permanent injunction are both denied and the action dismissed.